This dramatic footage shows a car ditched after a bank robbery engulfed in flames.

The burning car was left at the scene of a bank robbery in the sleepy village of Hesketh Bank, near Southport, this morning.

The reader's video shows fire tear through the dark-coloured estate car abandoned outside the HSBC bank on Station Road.

The bank is understood to have been targeted at around 9am this morning.

The footage also shows thick black smoke billow out of the vehicle inside a police cordon. Sirens can also be heard a s fire-engine arrives at the scene.

The full details of what happened are not yet known, and it is also unknown whether or not the robbers got away with any money, or why their getaway car was seemingly set alight so near to their target.

A police spokesman told The ECHO : “We were called out at 9.10am today to reports of a robbery at the HSBC bank on Station Road, Hesketh Bank.

“Officers attended and found the offenders had made good their escape after setting ablaze and then abandoning their vehicles.